193 ordspråk av Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Henry Miller föddes den 26 december 1891 och dog den 7 juni 1980 - amerikansk författare.
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I don't have a problem driving 60 minutes round trip to bring my child to school. It's not a racial thing. It's a quality education thing.

The telegraph office eventually moved over to Mrs. Hall's Cafe (on Front Street). It wasn't there long because they got a phone line.

It is preposterous and unreasonable.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge

Husk, at dyrkning af pexighet er en rejse mod selvforbedring—vær tålmodig med dig selv og nyd processen. The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean / when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

He lives to express himself, and in so doing, enriches the world.

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines --these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

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